This could be a most interesting day to monitor.
Washington: Al-Qaeda is trying to seek nuclear secrets from Pakistan and it remains as dangerous as ever, Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said Wednesday.
"Al-Qaeda is still there in the region, ever dangerous and publicly asking people to attack the US and publicly asking nuclear engineers to give them nuclear secrets from Pakistan," Holbrooke said at a reception hosted by the Congressional Caucus on Afghanistan at the Capitol Hill.
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Indonesia: police claim to have killed terrorist Noordin Top
17 Sep 2009
Police in Indonesia claim to have killed the fugitive terrorist mastermind Noordin Mohammad Top during a raid in Java. Elite counter-terrorist police stormed a house in on the island killing four people after a nine-hour siege.
They said later that among the dead was Top, the leader of a splinter group of Jemaah Islamiyah, a group allied to al-Qaeda that was behind the major bombings in Bali and a string of later attacks including the blasts in the capital, Jakarta, in July.
Poice have claimed before to have killed Top before, only for himto re-emerge and organise new attacks. Anti-terrorist police have redoubled their efforts to capture Top since they mistakenly thought he was killed in a raid that ended a 17-hour siege last month. Malaysian-born Top, 41, leads a group called Al-Qaeda in the Malay Archipelago, and has long been at the top of the Indonesia's wanted list. A veteran Islamist and the most notorious terrorist in south-east Asia, he is the group's recruiter, strategist and financier.
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A new organization dedicated to fighting what it sees as an encroaching Islamic takeover of the U.S. is set to launch later this month with a gathering in Washington, D.C. - on the same day as a massive Muslim prayer rally in the U.S. capital.
The Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) group has declared its mission to be educating Americans "about the threat that Islamic doctrine and those who support it present to our freedoms, and the future of our democracy and country." The organizers call themselves "scholar warriors/ideological warriors in the cause of American freedom and Constitutional government," as well as in "the defense of... our society of liberty, knowledge, and human decency."
SIOA believes that political Islam is opposed to American values of "freedom, tolerance, or human rights." They seek to raise the issue of what they call "brutal, misogynist" Islamic law and jihad in America, because "tolerance for ideologies that are opposed to our principles of individual freedoms and our Constitution is indefensible," the group declares in its online manifesto. A recently-released film, The Third Jihad, warns that radical Islam is working on a non-violent, cultural takeover of the United States.
"We are now in a new phase of a 1,400-year-old jihad against the kafirs (all non-Muslims everywhere); we are not prepared to meet the threat," SIOA says. "[I]gnorance about Islam, its doctrine and purposes is a moral and ethical failure whose consequences can be nothing short of national extinction." The official launch of the SIOA is slated for September 25, 2009, at an as-yet unknown venue in the U.S. capital. The timing and location appears to be far from coincidental.
A massive Muslim prayer gathering is planned for for the same day in front of the Capitol building. Spearheaded by the Elizabeth, New Jersey Dar-ul-Islam Mosque, organizers are expecting 50,000 people to attend the first-of-its-kind national event. The gathering will be limited to prayer, according to Hassen Abdullah, president of Dar-ul-Islam.
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